Registered Nurse - Family Birth Center - Per Diem -Req#

Description

About Astria

The Astria Health system, headquartered in the heart of the state of Washington's wine country in the beautiful Yakima Valley, is the largest non-profit healthcare system based in Eastern Washington. Astria Health is the parent non-profit organization of Astria Sunnyside Hospital and Astria Toppenish Hospital and delivers care throughout the Valley through its Astria Health Hospitals and its Astria Ambulatory Care model focused on delivering the highest level of ambulatory and outpatient care in convenient locations in both the Lower and Upper Yakima Valley. Astria Ambulatory Care is designed to meet the changing lifestyles and diverse needs of those living and working throughout the region.

Across our healthcare network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers and opportunities for growth and safe workplaces. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, marketing, or our clinical services in any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for providing exceptional healthcare to our communities motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion, we want to hear from you.


Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Astria Health's unique view on what's important and right - being a leader in providing innovative, exceptional rural healthcare solutions with kindness and dignity. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions independently, cultivate trust through accountability, and go beyond the expected. We believe in continuously escalating the bar for talent and performance because we are obsessed with a commitment to excellence and patient care. It also helps candidates consider career opportunities and evaluate whether they will thrive at Astria Health.

Astria Health is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team! This position is located at our Astria Sunnyside Hospital in our Family Birthing Center.

Shift: Variable Shifts

What you get to do every day!

As the Registered Nurse - Family Birthing Center, this role utilizes the nursing process in the management and care of patients (mother and newborn), during the final stages of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum. The RN provides individualized care to the patient, family and caregivers and is competent and knowledgeable to provide care to the patient population served. You will:

• Provides information, guidance, and hands-on clinical care to pregnant women and their newborns.
• Uses appropriate equipment to monitor vital signs, fetal heart rate, and uterine activity during labor and delivery.
• Assists providers in delivering newborns.
• Administers medications related to labor, delivery, and the care of newborns.
• Provides guidance to new mothers on all aspects of recovery and newborn care.
• Performs tests necessary in the care of the newborn.
• Performs other duties as assigned,
• Collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries,
• Adheres to the core values and standards of the organization.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program.
• Current RN Washington State License
• At least 1 year experience in Labor & Delivery and/or Postpartum Care.
• Current BLS, ALS, and NRP certification.
• Fetal Monitoring and STABLE certifications required within 6 months of hire.
• Oral and written fluency in the English language.

This position is identified as a safety-sensitive position for which impairment while on the job would present a substantial risk of death. As a condition of employment, you will need to authorize and complete a background check. Information received from the background check is reviewed case-by-case and will not necessarily remove an applicant from consideration. This position is part of a union contract.